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Monday, September 12, 2016

Eight literary agents at The Rights Factory seek all kinds of fiction and nonfiction for adults and for children ~ picture books to YA

The Film Club by David Gilmour,
represented by The Rights Factory

The Rights Factory Inc.

PO Box 499, Station C
Toronto ON M6J 3P6http://therightsfactory.com/

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The Rights Factory (TRF) is a
young agency with a roster of eight agents, all actively seeking authors. The Rights Factory describes itself as a boutique literary agency that
deals in intellectual property rights for entertainment products, including
books, comics & graphic novels, film, television, and video games. TRF
works directly with publishers, producers, studios, game developers and other
rights-buyers in all territories, occasionally in conjunction with local
representatives.

The Rights Factory has an esteemed
roster of both fiction and nonfiction writers, including David Gilmour; HannahMcKinnon; Gila Green; Jennifer Close, debut author of the must-read short story
collection, Girls In White Dresses;Margot
Berwin, author of Hot House Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire (optioned by Julia Roberts in
conjunction with Columbia Pictures for film rights), and the paranormal
romance, Aromata.

Cassandra Rodgersis
an associate agent at the Rights Factory who’s actively working on
building her list. Her focus is on adult commercial and literary fiction
– especially manuscripts with an emphasis on relationships and family. Cassandra has a diverse group of clients from across North America that
ranges from debut authors to celebrities.

She’s
seeking literary fiction and commercial women’s fiction. With a degree in
History and Political Science from the University of Toronto, she does have a
weakness for historical fiction. Nonfiction is another passion –
particularly politics, history, science, and finance. Memoirs that can make her
laugh, cry, or inspire her are always welcome.

“I’m generally interested in a wide
range of genres with a focus on the adult market,” says Cassandra.

Note: Cassandra
will be the guest speaker at the How to Get Published workshop Saturday, Oct 15 in Burlington. Details here.

She prefers to be queried with just a
good pitch, synopsis, and bio. If she’s interested, she will generally
ask for the entire manuscript.

Olga Filinais
an associate agent with The Rights Factory. A graduate of Humber’s Creative
Book Publishing Program, Olga spent over a decade as a sales manager and
book buyer for both national and independent book store chains and two years as
a literary assistant at The Cooke Agency.

While Olga will read anything that
may set her book clubs on fire, she gravitates towards commercial and
historical fiction, great genre fiction in the area of romance and mystery,
nonfiction in the field of business, wellness, lifestyle and memoir and young
adult and middle grade novels with memorable characters.

In her spare time, Olga sits on
library boards, organizes literary festivals and runs more book clubs than she
can count.

Sam Hiyateis
the president and co-founder of The
Rights Factory. Among others, Sam represents Andrew Kaufman, author of such literary works as All My
Friends Are Superheroes and The Waterproof Bible; Rupinder
Gill, This Hour Has 22 Minutes staff writer and author of the humorous
memoir On the Outside Looking Indian; and David Gilmour,
multi-award winning author of The Film Club and The Perfect
Order of Things.

Sam’s projects for the agency have been in various categories,
including memoir, literary and commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction and
graphic novels. He’s looking for works of all categories with
distinct and compelling voices. He loves to discover and help new writers
prepare their works for the market, and to help them build a career with their
talent.

In particular, Sam is seeking great mysteries,
crime novels and thrillers, he’s partial to funny and moving stories, and he’s
always on the lookout for that perfect commercial-literary hybrid. He also
wants Business Books, Commercial Upmarket Fiction, Literary Fiction, and Memoir,
and Nonfiction.

Ali McDonaldis The
Rights Factory’s lead agent
specializing in children’s literature. She represents a select list of authors
with projects ranging from novelty, board books, picture books, early readers,
chapter books, and graphic novels, to middle grade, young adult and new adult
fiction and nonfiction. She enjoys working primarily with debut authors, but
also has the distinguished pleasure of representing literary stars among her
international clients. Ali is living the dream of having a job she loves.

Lydia
Moëdis an associate agent with The Rights Factory. She
came to Canada from the UK, where she worked as a foreign rights executive for
UK publishers, including Usborne Publishing and Elwin Street Productions. At
The Rights Factory, Lydia, handles foreign rights for children’s and YA books
and is building her own list of authors.

In
fiction, she is most interested in acquiring science fiction and fantasy,
though she also enjoys magical realism, historical fiction, and stories
inspired by folklore from around the world.

In
nonfiction, she is interested in narrative nonfiction on a wide variety of
topics, including history, popular science, biography, and memoir. She
particularly welcomes queries by authors from marginalized groups.

Natalie Kimber is as associate agent based in New York City.
Natalie brings her list from her self-started Sun Rae Agency. Previously, she
worked with Georgetown Booklab and as an associate to Muriel Nellis at Literary
and Creative Artists, Inc.

She is inspired by bringing experimental, risky, and thoughtful
new literature into the world of traditional publishing.She appreciates authors who have a vision
incorporated into their writing, from exploring history untold to re-telling
timeless tales with a twist, Nat looks for writers who unveil meaningful new
ways to see the world and ourselves in it.Her passion is helping authors share their vision
and talent with a grateful audience, and guiding the process that manifests a
vision into book form is her raison d’etre.

Haskell Nussbaum is a lawyer turned writer turned literary
agent. He is the author of Beat That Parking Ticket and has
contributed articles and stories to the National Post (Canada), Jerusalem
Post, Pacific News Service and others, and he has appeared on, or been
featured in, national and local news, radio and TV, including Fox and Friends,
NPR, NY Post, New York Magazine, USA Today, NY1, CBS, Today
in New York, and many others.
His list is diverse, ranging from clients on the New York Times Bestseller list
to debut authors.

Harry
Endrulat is an associate agent. Harry has over twenty years
of experience as both an in-house and freelance editor, working for
numerous publishers such as Fenn/Tundra (Random House), HarperCollins and
Penguin.

In addition, he is an award-winning author whose books have been
published by Kids Can Press, Key Porter Books and Pajama Press. He is also
the creator and producer of It’s a Kid’s
World (a television series on Rogers TV). Harry graduated from Wilfrid
Laurier University with an Honours English degree and Centennial College
with a Book and Magazine Publishing diploma.

Brian
Henry will lead How to Get Published workshops on Saturday, Oct 15, in Burlington
with literary agent Cassandra Rodgers of The Rights Factory (see here),
on Saturday, Oct 22, in London with Stacey Donaghy of the Donaghy agency (see here), and on
Saturday, October 29, in Caledon, at the Bolton Public Library, with
Martha Web of the McDermid Agency (see here). Note: If you're looking at this posting after October, 2016, check
out current How to Get Published workshops here (and down).

Then
on Saturday, November 19, Brian will lead a Writing for Children and for Young Adults workshop in Mississauga with Anne Shone, senior
editor, Scholastic Books as his guest speaker (see here).

Note: If
you're looking at this posting after Nov 19, 2016, check out current Writing
for Children & for Young Adult workshops and weekly Writing Kid Lit courses here(and
scroll down).

Brian
Henry also has a number of other workshops coming up soon: Writing
with Style, Saturday, Sept 24, in Toronto
(see here), and How to Write Great Dialogue, Saturday, Oct 1, in Kitchener (see here).

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Brian Henry has been a book editor, writer, and creative writing instructor for more than 25 years. He teaches creative writing at Ryerson University. He also leads weekly creative writing courses in Burlington, Mississauga, Oakville and Georgetown and conducts Saturday workshops throughout Ontario. His proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get published.